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The nightmare of my new Nissan Almera

MIRAMAX — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:33:02 +0800

Does anyone encountered this problem before… where new Almera’s air-cond suddenly emitting a large amount of snow-liked “White Sticky Films” into the car (see the pictures below) ? That was what happened to my new Nissan Almera which I bought in 2016 but still at very low mileage (i.e. at below 6000km) as I only drive quite a short distant on weekdays.

It all started on 23rd December 2016 (Friday), where, after leaving my Almera at home (without driving) for 6 days, and then, as usual, I started my car engine & switched on the air conditioner, then all of the sudden the air-cond blew out a horrible amount of snow-liked “White Sticky Films” ( which I had never seen before ), the amount of this “white films” was so huge that it stuck all over my body, my face, nose, mouth & the entire car interior... and as a result of that, I was choking & coughing non-stop but I immediately drove the car to the nearest Nissan Service Centre (in Chan Sow Lin) for inspection.. & the Supervisor there told me that he has seen cases like this before, where car owners left their cars without driving for 3-4 days & then when they started the engine the air-cond blew out white films (similar to my case).

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I was totally terrified because the entire car interior & my whole body were covered with this “white sticky films”... It was like a volcano erupted & emitting large amount of white sticky films non-stop inside the car… but the Supervisor told me it was just the “normal dust” (that we see everyday) -- which I don't believe because as a car driver for more than 20 years I had never seen anything like this (i.e. air-cond emitting white sticky films), or heard anything like this before.. For sure, it was not the kind of "normal dust" that we see every day !

Since air conditioner works on close-loop environment... & in order to get rid of this whole mess, I have thoroughly vacuumed my car many times... also, my family members have to wear face mask (whenever I drive the car) because all of them have serious Sinus problem (and need to take sinus medication regularly), but still, regardless of how many time I vacuumed the car, after a short while of driving... the new “white films” will re-appear again... although it appears to be in smaller size & lesser quantity now... but still, it can be seen emitting all over the car whenever I switched-on the air-cond… and since I have coughing almost every day for the pass two months, I have to stop driving the car for the time being because I just couldn’t keep vacuuming the car everyday... What I am worrying the most is,

1) What are those snow-like white films (that keeps emitting out of the air conditioner) ?
2) Are they toxic/ poisonous & hazardous to human (as I was coughing for nearly 2 months since Dec 2016) ?
3) How could that possibly happen (to a new car) ?

Is anyone encountered this problem before, or knew about the problem... please help to advise, or share your experience.

Thank you very much.

Horrible encountering of my new Nissan Almera

MIRAMAX — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 06:54:42 +0800

Something horrible & terrible happened to my new Nissan Almera (which I bought in 2016 but still at very low mileage as I only drive quite a short distant during weekdays).

On 23 December 2016 (Friday), something horrible happened, after leaving my Almera at home for 6 days (without driving), and as usual, I started my car engine & switched on the air conditioner & all of the sudden the air-cond blew out a large amount of “snow-like sticky white films” (which I never seen before !), the amount of this “white films” was so huge that it stuck all over my body, my face, nose, mouth & the entire car interior... As a result of that I was coughing non-stop but I immediately drove my car to the nearest Nissan service centre in Chan Sow Lin KL for inspection... & the supervisor there told me that he has seen a few cases like this before, where car owners left their cars idle (without driving) for 3-4 days & then when they started the engine the air-cond blew out sticky white film (similar to my case). I was terrified because the entire car interior & my whole body were covered with this “snow-like sticky white films” but the supervisor told me it was just “normal dust” - which I don’t believe because as a car driver for more than 20 years I had never seen anything like this (sticky white film), or heard anything like this before. For sure it was definitely not the kind of "normal dust" we see every day !

Since the air conditioner works on close-loop environment & in order to get rid of the entire mess, I have vacuumed the car interior a few times... also, my family have to wear face mask (when using the car) because all of them have serious sinus problem (and regularly taking sinus medication), but still, after a while of driving, this “white films” will appear again.. although with smaller size & lesser quantity now, still, it can be seen all over the car interior… and since I have coughing almost every day now, I have to stop driving the car for the time being because I just can’t keep vacuuming the car everyday…

I have taken a few photos (of those white films) & in fact, my Almera has just undergone the 2nd scheduled service (i.e. 10,000km) about a week earlier...

Can anyone kindly enlighten:

1. How could that happen ?
2. What are those snow-like sticky white films (that emitting out of the air conditioner) ?
3. Are they dangerous compound & hazardous to human ?

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MIRAMAX — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:37:53 +0800

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